Very rare pamphlet issued immediately on the heals of William Wilberforce's delivery of his Evidences, exposing the horrors of the slave trade before parliament. The result of Fox's call for a boycott was well-received and the decrease in the consumption of West Indian sugar and rum caused industry-wide, significant financial losses.
The tract was influential enough to be issued in Philadelphia shortly thereafter, where it also had a significant effect.
Scarce in the trade.
William Fox. An Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Propriety of Abstaining from West India Sugar and Rum. The Fourteenth Edition, with Additions. Sold by M. Gurney. 1792. 12pp.
A good + copy, bound in wraps, lightly shaken, with generally bright pages and light foxing. Remaining flotsam from an earlier sammelband binding.
